Sigar problems on windows 64

[dcardin]

There are known problems with Sigar (many), including

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/12281

@msimos thanks for reporting. This is a known problem and this is one of the reason we removed sigar from elasticsearch 2.0.

http://www.ca.com/us/support/ca-support-online/product-content/knowledgebase-articles/tec1640327.aspx We are no longer using the SIGAR components in DevTest and they will be removed in an upcoming release of DevTest.

I think alternatives should be explored.

[felixbarny]

Do you know of any good alternatives?

[dcardin]

no, I wish I did. Thankfully, our production servers are under Linux. It looks as though the project was just abandoned by vmware after acquisition from Hyperic...

[dcardin]

Come to think of it. Probably just using topbeat on windows would do the job ?

[ryanrupp]

Yes, personally since Elasticsearch is already in use I'm just leveraging topbeat and doing the OS level monitoring outside of Stagemonitor but I can understand the value of having this all done by one tool. I haven't used topbeat on Windows however.

[dcardin]

Yeah, I see the value of having everything at the same place. I think the TopBeat for Windows is a workaround until a better library can be used reliably. SIGAR looks like it hasn't been touched since 2010.

[felixbarny]

Found two alternatives: https://github.com/dblock/oshi and https://github.com/profesorfalken/jHardware. Does anyone have experience with it?

[dcardin]

OSHI looks nice :) but it's JDK7 for the older version and JDK8 for the new one. Something to consider, I suppose. Maybe there could be a notion of host info provider for the generic plugin

[cdalexndr]

Crashes on win10 x64 using stagemonitor-os:0.88.9, jdk 12.0.2 hs_err_pid13232.log

Current thread (0x0000026170f3b000):  JavaThread "restartedMain" [_thread_in_native, id=11360, stack(0x0000009598100000,0x0000009598200000)]

Stack: [0x0000009598100000,0x0000009598200000],  sp=0x00000095981fd1e0,  free space=1012k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C  [sigar-amd64-winnt.dll+0x14ed4]

Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
j  org.hyperic.sigar.Sigar.getCpuInfoList()[Lorg/hyperic/sigar/CpuInfo;+0
j  org.stagemonitor.os.OsPlugin.newSigar()Lorg/hyperic/sigar/Sigar;+9
j  org.stagemonitor.os.OsPlugin.initializePlugin(Lorg/stagemonitor/core/StagemonitorPlugin$InitArguments;)V+44
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.initializePlugin(Lorg/stagemonitor/core/StagemonitorPlugin;)V+28
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.initializePluginsInOrder(Ljava/util/Collection;Ljava/lang/Iterable;)V+91
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.initializePlugins()V+38
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.start()V+0
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.doStartMonitoring()V+45
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.startMonitoring(Lorg/stagemonitor/core/MeasurementSession;)V+45
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.reset(Lorg/stagemonitor/core/MeasurementSession;)V+63
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.reset()V+1
j  org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor.init()V+11